*PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday barred all the privateeducational institutions from collecting summer vacation fee.*
A bench of the high court directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private SchoolRegulatory Authority (KP-PSRA) to enforce its verdict.
It also directed the private schools that have already collected tuitionfor the summer vacation to return the same.
Earlier, the KP-PSRA had restrained all the private schools from chargingsummer/winter vacation fee from students.
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The regulatory body through a circular issued on May 30, 2019 directed allthe private schools not to charge summer/winter vacation fees.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, hearing a casepertaining to summer vacation fee, had observed that hike in privateschools fee could only be made over ‘solid reasons.’
